If you want to deep-fat fry okra, go for it. I prefer to sauté it. This way, it’s crunchy, not at all greasy. Even the extra cornmeal is crunchy and wonderful. Be generous with the salt and pepper and hope for leftovers. Tomorrow, we’re putting Fried Okra in a salad. SAM

In a 1-quart plastic zip bag, combine the cornmeal, flour, salt, and pepper. Add the okra, seal the top, and shake until the okra is coated. In a large, heavy skillet, preferably iron, over medium-high heat, heat the oil until a pinch of cornmeal bubbles furiously. Add the okra and sauté, turning frequently with a wide spatula, until crisp and brown, about 15 minutes. Serve as a side dish or in salads (recipe tomorrow).
Makes 4 servings.

A Continuing Story of Great Food and Tempestuous Love

Episode 36: Oh, Promise Me!

Sam is right. There is on this wedding day unprecedented music in the spheres.

Blessed by chance and fine ingredients, swept up in the power of love and good cooking, bound together by the certain glory of a life to come, Harry and Sam pledge each to the other the tag ends of their earthly days.

Harry's mother sighs; Sam's sisters cheer; their friends weep for joy, struck by the light of love shining in their eyes.

'Oh, promise me,' their butcher's niece, a voice major from Julliard, sings.

And they do.

The End.

Previously on The Rocky Road of Love

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